Color Scouter vs Smart scouter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Scouter
This utility app uses your device's camera to identify and display color values in multiple formats, including RGB, HSV, and hexadecimal. You can then edit and save these detected colors for later use.
- Camera-based color detection
- RGB color value display
- HSV color value display
- Hexadecimal color value display
- Color editing
- Save detected colors
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The Color Scouter can detect a color value with a camera. The value is written in RGB, HSV, hexadecimal notation for Web. It can be edited and saved.
Smart scouter
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Make your daily life more fun with the Smart Scouter! Just hold up your camera and the AI will measure various things! It will assess everything from your fighting power to the calories in food, the names of plants, and the quality of your funny faces! Main functions Fighting power measurement: Quantify your strength! Calorie calculation: Helps you manage your diet! Plant identification: Make a green life more fun! Funny face scoring: Sure to get your friends excited! Photo composition scoring: Supports you to improve your photography skills! In addition, with the Smart Scouter, your ideas can easily be turned into modules! The AI will analyze the images you take with the camera and tell you various information. How to make a module Just explain in words what you want to find out! For example, "How many calories are in this dish?" or "What breed is this dog?" The AI will understand what you are saying and the results of the image analysis will be displayed immediately! Examples: Calculating the calories in a dish: "How many calories are in this dish?" Determining a dog breed: "What is the breed of this dog? What are its characteristics?" Evaluating a painting: "What is the style of this painting? Please rate it." Fashion advice: "What accessories go well with this outfit?" The possibilities are endless, limited only by your creativity!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Color Scouter at none against Smart scouter's 3. Color Scouter also leads on ads (none vs shown). Smart scouter's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 27 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Smart scouter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Color Scouter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Color Scouter ships an update every 27 months, Smart scouter every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Scouter | Smart scouter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hiroaki SAWANO | Mutsumi Kubo |
In-app purchases
Color Scouter
No in-app purchases
Smart scouter
- charge 100$0.49
- charge 300$1.99
- charge 500$2.99
